Femi Osofisan is an internationally lauded playwright, scholar, poet, novelist, actor, director, songwriter, and activist and Professor Emeritus of Theatre Arts at the University of Ibadan. Osofisan was awarded the Thalia Prize in 2016. He has published five novellas, six volumes of poetry, and more than 50 plays.
16 Ebooks by James Gibbs
Martin Banham & James Gibbs: African Theatre 11: Festivals
Contributors examine how international theatre festivals have been organised and how they have affected the evolution of sustainable theatre.
During the last fifty years, large sums of money, hug …
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Martin Banham & James Gibbs: African Theatre 12: Shakespeare in and out of Africa
A key volume for Shakespeare, African theatre and postcolonial cultural scholars, promoting debate on the role of Western cultural icons in contemporary postcolonial cultures.
This volume takes a …
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Martin Banham & James Gibbs: African Theatre 13: Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Wole Soyinka
Directors and collaborators assess and comment on the production of plays by West Africa’s Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka and East Africa’s most influential author Ngugi wa Thiong’o.
Wole Soyinka an …
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Martin Banham & James Gibbs: African Theatre 14: Contemporary Women
Looks at the lives, challenges and contributions of African women from across the continent to making and participating in theatre in the 21st century.
Drawing on expertise from across the Africa …
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Martin Banham & James Gibbs: African Theatre 15: China, India & the Eastern World
Extends the study of China’s ‘soft power’ into theatre studies and looks more widely at syncretic traditions evolving in other long-term historic exchanges between Asia and Africa.
China is t …
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Martin Banham & James Gibbs: African Theatre 8: Diasporas
This volume in the African Theatre series celebrates the African theatrical diaspora from Brazil to Tasmania, and Canada to Cuba, and also includes the playscript Messing with the Mind by Egyptian wr …
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Martin Banham & James Gibbs: African Theatre 9: Histories 1850-1950
What kinds of documentation of performances exist – both of colonial and indigenous theatre and how may this range of documentation have affected how we read theatre history?
African performers, …
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Ernest N. Emenyonu: ALT 30 Reflections & Retrospectives: African Literature Today
A focus on some of the pioneers of African literary creation.
This special issue of
African Literature Today is devoted to some of the pioneer voices of African fiction in the twentieth century: …
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Ernest N. Emenyonu: ALT 31 Writing Africa in the Short Story: African Literature Today
The success of the Caine Prize for African Writing and the growth of online publishing have played key roles in putting the short story in its rightful place within the study and criticism of African …
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Ernest N. Emenyonu: ALT 32 Politics & Social Justice: African Literature Today
Examines some of the varied African literary responses to politics and social justice and injustice under colonialism/neocolonialism.
In 1965, Chinua Achebe, in his classic essay ‘The Novelist as …
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Ernest N. Emenyonu: ALT 27 New Novels in African Literature Today
This issue of African Literature Today focuses on new novels by emerging as well as established African novelists.
This is a seminal work that discusses the validity of the perception that the ne …
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Galapagos Giant Tortoises
Galapagos Giant Tortoises brings together researchers and conservationists to share the most up-to-date knowledge of Galapagos giant tortoises. Despite being icons of the world-famous Galapagos …
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Martin Banham & James Gibbs: African Theatre 10: Media and Performance
Examines the impact of new media (such as video and You Tube) and the use of multi-media on live and recorded performance in Africa.
Focuses on the ways African theatre and performance relate to …
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Martin Banham & James Gibbs: African Theatre 7: Companies
Profiles theatre companies in Africa working creatively in the context of financial and political constraints.
A close scrutiny of how theatre companies operate is an often neglected aspect of th …
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Ernest N. Emenyonu: ALT 26 War in African Literature Today
How have African writers addressed the issue of war and its impact across the continent?
Since the second half of the twentieth century, no single phenomenon has marred the image and development …
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James Gibbs: Dixie Clockmakers
The magnificent artistry and craftmanship of eighteenth and nineteenth century clockmakers in the South has been recorded in this lavishly illustrated volume.Entitled Dixie Clockmakers, the 192-page …
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